Included in this volume are the series of articles Crowley penned for Vanity Fair during the Great War. Subject matter ranges from ‘On The Management of Blondes’ to Japanese verse, Polo... More > and various other arcane matters. All delivered with the same non-PC, inimitable devil-may-care wit one expects from ‘The Wickedest Man Alive.’< Less

Max Kessel is a successful art dealer who leads a double life as a master thief. But now he faces his greatest challenge: he has been blackmailed into stealing the only known film of notorious black... More > magician and cult leader Aleister Crowley. Max has three days to travel to Sicily, steal the film, evade police and return the prize to Los Angeles. But that's not all. Crowley's cult still lives, and his followers are prepared to kill to claim the film for themselves.< Less

This Book is in English; Hardcover Cloth Bound with Dust Jacket; The Ars Goetia was published in English in 1904 by Aleister Crowley as The Goetia. It is based on manuscripts from the British Museum,... More > with additions by Crowley, including a Preliminary Invocation drawn from Goodwin's Fragment of a Graeco-Egyptian Work upon Magic, and the essay The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic. It is not a faithful edition of the source manuscripts but contains several innovations, including some evocations in Enochian written by Crowley. In his introduction, Crowley argues that the work of demonic evocation is merely a form of psychological self-exploration.< Less

Symonds met Aleister Crowley in 1946, the year before Crowley's death. Crowley's will left the copyright of his works to Symonds and made him Crowley's literary executor, though Crowley's legal... More > status as an undischarged bankrupt meant that the copyrights actually ended up in receivership. At first fascinated by Crowley, Symonds became increasingly critical of his ideas and manners, in particular the use of drugs and free-sex.
He edited, with Kenneth Grant, Crowley's autobiography and a number of other works. He authored four biographical works of his own: The Great Beast, (1952), The Magic of Aleister Crowley (1958), The King of the Shadow Realm (1989) and The Beast 666 (1997).< Less

Aleister Crowley is known today especially as an occultist, spy, chess master, professional mountain climber, and sexual revolutionary. However, Crowley, who used to be called "the wickedest man... More > in the world" by his adversaries, gained more notoriety during his lifetime as an author of fiction, including plays, poems, and later novels, most of which have not yet received the attention they deserve. "The Household," a one-act comedy that makes readers roar with laughter, is eaxctly one of those masterpieces by this important Bristish writer that needs to be rediscovered by contemporary readers.< Less

Aleister Crowley is known today especially as an occultist, spy, chess master, professional mountain climber, and sexual revolutionary. However, Crowley, who used to be called "the wickedest man... More > in the world" by his adversaries, gained more notoriety during his lifetime as an author of fiction, including plays, poems, and later novels, most of which have not yet received the attention they deserve. "The Household," a one-act comedy that makes readers roar with laughter, is eaxctly one of those masterpieces by this important Bristish writer that needs to be rediscovered by contemporary readers.< Less

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